Narciso Rodriguez understands how to interpret nuances via fragrance, how to aromatically emulate the subtle differences between a glance and a stare, between a whisper and a murmur, between a sigh and a gasp, between a breeze and a gust.
There’s something undeniably sexy about wearing your favorite fragrance on your hair, spritzing those strands so that, as your mane bounces when you walk and as you flip your hair or twirl it aloofly, a subtle trail of that scent wafts through the air.
You might associate Benefit Cosmetics with dark circle-blasting concealers, brow lifting pencils, and flush-in-a-bottle cheek tints, but the San Francisco-based beauty brand’s offerings expand way past color cosmetics — in fact, Benefit has its very own fragrance, the flirty Maybe Baby Eau de Toilette ($32 at BenefitCosmetics.com).
We often remember specific summers by the anthems that defined them, the tunes that topped the charts and dominated the radio waves, that served as the soundtrack to our road trips, beach dips, and sweaty flings.
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When I think of the ever-expanding collection of Dolce & Gabbana Dolce perfumes, I picture Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana taking on the role of curators of a magnificent fragrance garden, drafting a landscape design that delineates where to plant each bloom, meticulously selecting seeds of both familiar and exotic flower species, testing the soil’s pH level, carefully deciding when the soil is ready and the season is optimal for planting a specific bloom, pulling weeds and mulching their flower beds, determining which decorative details to add (a cobblestone walkway here, a stone wall there, an idyllic pond with a wooden bridge to the far left, and so forth), and pruning blossoming flowers as needed — all while wearing the most stylish gloves and tool belts (think printed, lace-adorned, gem-encrusted, and adorned with three-dimensional resin flowers, something akin to the headphones they released for Spring 2015).
Love is a many splendored thing — and so are the thoughtful gifts we’ve amassed in Part 3 of our Valentine’s Day gift guide.
Granted: the Valentine’s Day gift-giving scene was simpler in junior high school, when heart grams and boxes of chocolate were the norm, but these trinkets weren’t exactly renowned for their originality.
There’s a reason why Beyoncé’s new Heat Kissed fragrance is packaged inside a translucent red bottle that’s not fully transparent: the aromatic composition therein evokes passion and ardor, but there’s also a sense of mystery and intrigue to the aroma that serves to magnify its appeal.
Shopping for the kind of girl who always has the newest emojis, boasts a near-encyclopedic knowledge of popular hashtags, and whose Periscope videos are stop-the-presses material?
